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CIM: Advanced Presentation Techniques (BBA90021)

General information

Type:

 OP

Curs:

 3

Period:

 S semester

ECTS Credits:

 2 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group Teacher Department Language
Matthew Cruickshank Owen English Section ENG
Gaby Michaelides English Section ENG

Prerequisites

BBA 2, 3,4

Previous Knowledge


Students should already have had some basic training in Presentation skills
Workload distribution
Contact hours: 24
(Input sessions, student participation and individual feedback and counseling)
Independent work: 26 hours

Course Learning Objectives

This course is designed to enable students to optimize their presentation skills by using a wider range of techniques, and focusing on their strengths and weaknesses as public speakers, in order to build on the first and improve the second:

A. Key aspects of rhetoric: Ethos, Pathos and Logos
B. Frameworks for analysing presentations
C. Use of the voice
D. The pillars of rhetoric: Inventio, discutio, elocutio, memoria, actio
E. Adjusting to your audience

CONTENT

1. Course Contents


1. Profiling the presenter - Self-Analysis and goal setting
2. Types of presentation - Adapting your approach
3. ABCD of Presentations - rhetoric
4. Intensive voice practice
5. Impact techniques

Methodology

Class Activities include the following:

1 Giving short and one extensive presentation
2 Discussion in class
3 Self study and preparation
4 Critical viewing of video recordings, films and live performances
5 Reading of related texts
6 Peer evaluation and discussion
7. Presentation journal

Assessment criteria


20% Continuous assessment of all class activities taking into account the following criteria:
1. Adapting the language and content to the specific audience
2. Selecting relevant information according to the task and audience
3. Organising and presenting the information clearly and coherently

Given the characteristics of the course, there is a minimum requirement of 75% attendance. Failure to meet this requirement automatically leads to a fail.
4. Following the conventions of the genre in terms of the content, awareness of body language and intonation conventions

50% Final Assessed task (15 minute prepared business presentation)
30% Final presentation journal: around 1000 words based on what participants have learned during the course

Attendance: Given the characteristics of the course, there is a minimum requirement of 75% attendance. Failure to meet this requirement automatically leads to a fail.

Bibliography

Relevant reading and viewing material will be recommended by the teacher during the course.

Timetable and sections

Group Teacher Department
Matthew Cruickshank Owen English Section
Gaby Michaelides English Section

Timetable

From 2018/2/8 to 2018/3/15:
Each Thursday from 8:00 to 11:00.

From 2018/4/12 to 2018/4/19:
Each Thursday from 8:00 to 11:00.